Upside-Down Union Jacks

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An interesting variant on "getting it wrong" on Remembrance Sunday by Manchester Central Library

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Despite being a shambles, it can be construed as being the correct way up.
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jdaw1 wrote:Despite being a shambles, it can be construed as being the correct way up.
My 1 second reaction was "thick white on top, nothing wrong". I then looked closer.
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This strange article includes the following interesting snippet:
The BBC wrote:BBC house style on union jack
Union jack, lower case, is the term we use for the UK flag formed by combining the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. (The proper term, "union flag", carries potential for confusion - especially in the context of EU stories). However, where there are local political sensitivities, as in Northern Ireland, union flag is acceptable.
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djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
And some of them appear to have been adults!
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djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
And some of them appear to have been adults!
Careful - you'll have the artists' guild round with the hammers. Next thing you know, you'll be making derogatory comments about the installation I saw in a modern art museum in Cologne recently comprising a wire stretched half-way across the room - "initially mistakable for a barrier preventing the viewer from reaching an item which has been temporarily removed, the participant then begins to consider the concept of the inaccessible space" - or some-such on the adjoining notice...
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PhilW wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
And some of them appear to have been adults!
Careful - you'll have the artists' guild round with the hammers. Next thing you know, you'll be making derogatory comments about the installation I saw in a modern art museum in Cologne recently comprising a wire stretched half-way across the room - "initially mistakable for a barrier preventing the viewer from reaching an item which has been temporarily removed, the participant then begins to consider the concept of the inaccessible space" - or some-such on the adjoining notice...
There are pretentious artists, and then there strange frustrated people who shouldn't be allowed access to photoshop. The first group makes me mad, the second brings a strange delight.
Only one lot are coining it in though.
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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
well the iron bru one made me laugh!

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Messed up Union Jack. On sale at http://www.achica.com/product/1359240/p ... ack-mirror

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I think my father-in-law's festive slippers have a problem!
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A problem? There are many, many layers of problem.
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LGTrotter wrote:A problem? There are many, many layers of problem.
Agreed, but only one pertinent to this thread. I am trying to ignore the others.
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Not upside down, but it seems that the Bulgarians are mangling this country even before arriving.
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Hmm. Page 22 of today's Guardian.
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Aside from the obvious problems with the union jacks (plural as they do not connect into a single flag), there is also a worrying discontinuity in the northwest of the Irish Republic, where Donegal and Sligo appear to have become discontiguous (or rather, connected only by a single line).
(I'll let someone else post Melissa Kite's incoherent article about alcohol and health that is alongside it.)
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It is also interesting that Dumfries and Galloway now appears to be in England :shock:
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DRT wrote:It is also interesting that Dumfries and Galloway now appears to be in England :shock:
And Ulster in Scotland. Is this a predictive map of the British Isles post referendum?
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I don't think i'd realised before that the northernmost point in Ireland (the island) was in Ireland (the country) rather than Northern Ireland. So the map was not without merit for my education!
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RAYC wrote:I don't think i'd realised before that the northernmost point in Ireland (the island) was in Ireland (the country) rather than Northern Ireland. So the map was not without merit for my education!
The very beautiful Inishowen peninsula. And if the Foyle (river and lough) is the boundary between North and South / Co. Derry and Co. Donegal, then Derry city is on the 'wrong' side of the river.
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27 minutes into the first episode of Britain's Great War!
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DRT wrote:27 minutes into the first episode of Britain's Great War!
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That almost looks deliberate, since they alternate.
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Seen on 9th May 2014:
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The driver wanted to be told why I was photographing his vehicle. After explanation, he shared my disappointment.

But the other side of the lorry was correct.
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I suspect Julian has critiqued more Union Jack hoists than I have, but what is it that is wrong with the top one? If one assumes that it is hoisted on the right (where the vertical exhaust pipe could be construed as a flagpole), then isn't it OK?
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